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Needamaser

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Next Sunday 2nd October the car stuff is on offer again.
Battery charger at £14, mini compressor, jump leads etc.
Still impressed with the charger after several years use.
 
urquattrogus

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Hope it's better than the 70 pound CTEK I bought that failed only on it's third use a year after buying it! If it was 15 pounds I would have understood more, but I always worry about leaving things plugged in that might fail, so not that keen on either now :(
 
Hexadex

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Needamaser said:
Next Sunday 2nd October the car stuff is on offer again.
Battery charger at £14, mini compressor, jump leads etc.
Still impressed with the charger after several years use.
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Had mine a couple of years now, use on different cars and still going strong
 
Mr K

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Bump. Available today. I'll be off to get one before they close at 4pm.
 
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For the first time ever one of mine has failed to revive/recharge the 3200 battery. I've not run it for a month and it was so dead the windows couldn't even drop on the door! I had to use an old fashioned battery charger for 2 hours to get enough charge so that the Ultimate charger could get it going again and the battery registered 6V when I first connected it!

I do wonder if the battery is now toast.
 
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Contigo said:
For the first time ever one of mine has failed to revive/recharge the 3200 battery. I've not run it for a month and it was so dead the windows couldn't even drop on the door! I had to use an old fashioned battery charger for 2 hours to get enough charge so that the Ultimate charger could get it going again and the battery registered 6V when I first connected it!

I do wonder if the battery is now toast.
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I'd be disinclined to trust it.

C
 
rockits

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Picked up 5 trickle chargers this morning. That was an experience! Oh and 4 Blueberry muffins ;)
 
mjheathcote

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The lidl charger is good, however I have noticed that the current one does not appear to have a LCD display like the one I bought last year?
The compressor is decent, and the jump leads too.
 
Mr K

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mjheathcote said:
The lidl charger is good, however I have noticed that the current one does not appear to have a LCD display like the one I bought last year?
The compressor is decent, and the jump leads too.
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No LCD. Just some LEDs with symbols alongside indicating the mode.Testing it now on the Alfasud.

I bought a compressor too, but have just tested it and it's duff. Struggles to start when connected to a tyre, and after a few on-off switch cycles the switch has failed. Load of rubbish. Time for a refund.
 
Needamaser

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Some chargers won't chargea12v battery if it is below 7V.
They think it may be a fully charged 6V.
Put jump leads on it from a healthy 12v and that will take the voltage up to the point where the charger kicks in.
Done this as well with battery drills.
 
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Needamaser said:
Some chargers won't chargea12v battery if it is below 7V.
They think it may be a fully charged 6V.
Put jump leads on it from a healthy 12v and that will take the voltage up to the point where the charger kicks in.
Done this as well with battery drills.
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worth knowing and explains why it said 6V when I initially connected it.
 
rockits

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I had the same at the weekend but popped it on my Halfrauds battery charge first then back on the Lidl special after and all was fine. The Lidl is not a battery charger so won't from low or zero volts.
 
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